Saturday, May 17, 2008

United Colours of YouTube: Rides The Multimodal Wave

The possibilities of YouTube are endless. Here's a video that aims to bring out that spirit of patriotism that lies deep down in your heart(usually modestly reserved for Independance a.k.a Merdeka Day) all over again. Kudos to Pete Teo and company(a line up that includes Yasmin Ahmad and Tony Fernandes)!





Here In My Home-Malaysian Artistes For Unity

Incidentally, this is a classic example of multimodality in full swing too. According to Walsh(2006), multimodal texts refer to printed and digital texts which comprise of more than one mode. This interesting video clip combines sound, moving images and written text to provide a comprehensive understanding on unity.


References
Walsh, M 2006, ‘”Textual shift”: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts’, Australian journal of language and literacy, vol. 29, no 1, pp. 24-37.

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